Research summaries for autism therapy: generalization

definition of generalization: When a child learns a new skill and is able to perform that skill not just in front of the therapist, but in many different settings. For example, a child can learn to initiate conversation with a therapist and that is considered an accomplishment. A more wonderful accomplishment, however, is when the child is able to generalize the behavior and initiate conversation with his classmates at school. Other similar terms include generalizable and generalize.
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Picture Exchange Communication (PECS) Training for Young Children: Does Training Transfer at School to Home?, Summarized Jul 13, 2010

Picture Exchange Communication (PECS) may be easily taught to children with autism, but it may be hard to teach the children to generalize PECS requests outside of therapy sessions and into school and home.

This study focused on the extent to which PECS training transfers to the classroom and home. The three children in the study (5-6 years old) learned PECS quickly. The children did not make many PECS requests outside of the therapy session. The child who had the most PECS training was also the child who made the most PECS requests in school. The authors suggest that it may be important to have trained PECS communication partners in the school and home in order to get the child to use PECS in different settings.

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Generalized Effects of Video Modeling on Establishing Instructional Stimulus Control in Children with Autism, Summarized Mar 2, 2010

Video modeling may be a useful tool for stopping problem behaviors as well as teaching skills to children with autism.

This study looked to see if video modeling could help children with autism learn to stop what they are doing and clean up a toy. The three children in the study had good classroom behavior even before the study began. Two of the three children were able to generalize from the toy seen in the video to other toys. The third child had the most problem behaviors going into the study and he also had the most trouble learning from the videos. The authors note that videos are good because they can be made for each child to meet the needs of each child.

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Teaching Empathy Skills to Children with Autism, Summarized Jul 21, 2009

Empathy may be taught to children with autism using applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy.... Generalization of empathy skills from puppets to people happened with two children, so that when a person demonstrated emotions they responded appropriately. For two other children, generalization from puppets to people was limited.... Read more...

Parent Training: Acquisition and Generalization of Discrete Trials Teaching Skills with Parents of Children with Autism, Summarized Jun 23, 2009

Training on behavioral therapy techniques needs to be less expensive so that more parents can be trained on interventions that help their children with autism.... The authors believe that parent training in some skills may help parents teach other skills (generalization). The authors noted that the amount of time and cost involved in current parent training is high.... Read more...

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Synonyms for generalization include: generalize
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